id:			315934
accession number:	2018.258
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.258
updated:		2022-01-04 18:08:59.154000

Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit, c. 1615–20. Jacob van Hulsdonck (Flemish, 1582-1647). Oil on panel, the reverse prepared with gesso; 71.5 x 104 cm (28 1/8 x 40 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn 2018.258

title:				Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit
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creation date:			c. 1615–20
creation date earliest:		1615
creation date latest:		1620
current location:		213 Dutch Painting
creditline:			Gift of Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn
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technique:	Oil on panel, the reverse prepared with gesso
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Netherlandish-Flemish
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Jacob van Hulsdonck (Flemish, 1582-1647)  - artist
Flemish painter and draftsman, 1582-1647
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measurements: 71.5 x 104 cm (28 1/8 x 40 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Slow Food: Dutch and Flemish Meal Still Lifes, 1600-1640</em>. Mauritshuis, The Hague (March 9 - May 25, 2017). Cat. no. 13

* <em>The Land We Live In…The Land We Left Behind. </em>Hauser &amp; Wirth, Somerset (January 20– May 7, 2018)

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PROVENANCE

	Johann Melchior Edler von Birkenstock [1738–1809], Vienna
	date: by 1809
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	(Artaria, Vienna, Johan Melchior Edler von Birkenstock sale, March 1811, lot 387 [not sold])
	date: 1811
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	Antonia (Anthonie) Brentano (née von Birkenstock) [1780–1869], Frankfurt
	date: c. 1811
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	Kohlbacher, Frankfurt, Antonia von Brentano sale, April 4–6, 1870, lot 29 (purchased by seller's grandson, Emil Georg von Brentano)
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	Emil Georg von Brentano [1845–1890], Frankfurt
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	Presumably by descent to Franz Anton Johann von Brentano (1882–1940), Frankfurt
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	Franz Anton Johann von Brentano and Marga Luise von Brentano [née von Heister; d. 1964]
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	By descent to Bettina Birstein [née von Brentano; d. 1978]
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	By descent to Hiltrud Michaeli (née Birstein), Saarbrücken
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	(Sotheby's, London, December 5, 2012, lot 10 [as “The Property of a Lady”])
	date: 2012
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	(Johnny van Haeften, London)
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fun fact: 
Hulsdonck thoughtfully included condiments here: butter, lemon, parsley for the trotters, and a dab of mustard for the ham.

digital description: 
Jacob van Hulsdonck depicted a colorful array of foods, and tablewares ranging from an earthenware trencher to delicate Chinese porcelain—an expensive luxury made possible by international trade. For seventeenth-century viewers, the quantity and variety of foods would have represented a utopian world without scarcity or hunger. Partially eaten food and an overturned glass suggest that diners have just departed, leaving insects to explore the remains.

wall description: 
This expansive composition depicts a table laid with an abundance of foods and decorative table wares ranging from a humble red earthenware trencher to delicate Chinese porcelain bowls, an expensive luxury made possible by international trade. Although all of the foodstuffs in Jacob van Hulsdonck’s painting were available in the Netherlands, for a viewer in the 1600s the quantity and variety of delicacies depicted would have represented an ideal—a utopian world without scarcity or hunger. A crumpled napkin, overturned glass, and some partially eaten food give the sense that diners have just left the table, allowing some intrepid insects to explore the remains. The bold colors and precise detail that make Hulsdonck’s painting so engaging may have been influenced by the work of Ambrosius Bosschaert, another still life painter whose work is in the CMA's collection.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Frimmel, Theodor von. <em>Lexikon der Wiener Gemäldesammlungen</em>. vol. 1. München: G. Müller, 1913.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 160
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	P. Mason, in <em>Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings</em> (London: Johnny Van Haeften, 2013), n.p.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: no. 14
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	<em>Slow Food: Dutch and Flemish Meal Still Lifes, 1600-1640</em>. Mauritshuis, The Hague (March 9 - May 25, 2017). Catalogue by Quentin Buvelot, Yvonne Bleyerveld, Milou Goverde, Zoran Kwak, Anne Lenders, Fred G. Meijer, and Charlotte Rulkens.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 142–146, 201–202, no. 13
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	<em>The Land We Live In…The Land We Left Behind. </em>Hauser &amp; Wirth, Somerset (January 20– May 7, 2018)
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	url:		https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/6232-the-land-we-live-in-the-land-we-left-behind

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IMAGES

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